Microsoft just launched Slack's biggest competitor

Microsoft is officially taking on Slack.

The tech giant is launching Microsoft Teams, new real-time collaboration software that mirrors many of the features of Slack, including rooms, search and more "cultural" tricks like easy sharing of GIFs and memes.

"Just like Outlook brought together email, contacts and calendar into one magical user experience scaffolding that changed how we worked, Teams will bring together chat, meetings, notes, Office, Planner, Power BI... and other extensions and applications to help users get work done," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the launch event.   Read more...